Combined hanger and track for car-doors.



E. A. HILL.

, COMBINED HANGER AND TRACK FOR GAR DOORS.

APPLICATION-FILED MAY 15. 1909.

942,324, I Patented Dec.7, 1909.

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amMw/w new and improved 1 which'ithe door i sup vprovide a doorconstruction having UNITED strArEsrATENTormoE.

E nwAnnh. Hunt or oHr-cneo, rtnriwmrs, Assxenon 'ro CHICAGO GRAIN noon.com- Paint, on cHIeAGo, ILLINOIS, A

CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

vcentrist-n1: HANGER Ann rnacxron cAjR-noons.

.tSpecificatioizof Ietters'l'atent. Patented. D ,f7,"-1-909,

i al piieanqn filed Hay 15, mos se ial 110,496,163}

To allwhom it may-concerns? H Be it known-that I, En'wARD HILL,' acitizen-of the JUnited States, residing at Chicago, in thecounty of Cookand Stateof Illinois, have inventedce'rtain new and use: fulImprovements in Combined Hangers and Tracks for Can; ooljs; of whichthefollowin 1s a specification.

v y inventionrelatesfto freight car doors of the Isortwhichare movablyhung from the top on' the outside'of-the car, and the invention has 'foritsobject lto provide a merit inthe means used for mountingya door ofthis kind. upon'the car. which" shall be provide effective means forpreventing rain from entering the car over the top" of the 7 door andfor likewise 2Y0 weather the rollers Tor similar devices 7 by ported.- yItvis'a-further ob ect of the invention to the above mentionednecessitate the use of but .a small number of parts, and those of simpleconformation, so as .to be "cheaply made "saved inasingle' instance and,everyfsimpfmmd i i v door. For example-it has been =customary.

to construct the'runewaywhichisupports the ently have to ,grepaired .a.long. I

ey were built and. by "workmen posenee; Ithafs some sort of meansintended to prevent; the in I ovei f the top of the configurationseesawhaves flange that will extend down from-the track 'on which the sofar ,as my presentinvention is concerned,

door, rollers orftrolleys .run,r-whieh. flange stands for: is calculated,toystand front of the space which necessarily, vintervenes" be: tweenthe -top-a.oft rthe dOOl.f .j fflil1d the door construction and arrangeprotecting from the track belowthe characteristics which shall p and'easily put togethen. It is" ixnportan'tfthat structures of- "this sortshould economize material and'the; laborirequired. to produce .thGIIPiLOthe 'ut: most extent; inasmuchas they are used in:

- largenumbers;becauseeveryounce of metal way" ffom the shops frame.:This additional flange invents just so much more-metaland serves 110function except; to keep or tend to keep the rain from beating inoyerthetop. of the door. My invention; in the "embodiment shown, uses asimple L bar which isarranged to extend below the-upper'e'dg'e of thedoor, that'is, so that the 'liorizont'a'l flange of such bar standsbelow the edge ofthe'door; the door and; the 'hangers for the trolleywheels or sustaining devices attac the track Without materiallyincreasing the width-of the car at this place over constructions in'whi'c'h'thetrolleys, are above the door. This arrangement of the.track. below thetop of the door enables me to accom plish a secondaryobject of my invention, that is, to simplify the construction andmounting of the trolley wheels; With the wheels may. be looselyjournaled on the hangers and'will be held in position by their arran'ementbetween the vertical flange of theL ar andthe hangers.

' 5 The inventionv has for further objects such other new and improvedxconstructions in combined hangers and track for freight car doors aswill be described in thisspecification and 'mrticularly specified in theclaims appended thereto.-

top of the door, the trolley he invention in a preferred embodiment bed-'to the door be; mg arranged to conform .to'this gPQSltIOD of isillustrated in the accompanying drawing,

'Wherein 1. V

' Figure 1 IS a fragmentaryside elvation of a freight car and-outsidedoor.. Fig. 2 a

section taken on line '2-2 of Fig. 1 but on nilar section illustrating amodification, and- FigL L a section illustrating another I modifiedSofie-f tjure.

parts in the severalfigures of the drawing. Referring to the drawing, Arepresents the side of the frejight car, B t-heqdoor; C the roof oi thecar and D the upper longitudinal timber of Like characters'of referenceindi-.;:ite like loo the can name; 'lIhe drawin'g illustratesa familiarconstruction of box freight car. The particular construction of car,however, is a matter of no importance as the door and attachments of myinvention might be applied to variouscoustructions of cart" i firstparticularly to Fig.2,

fffthe' outside ofethe" "car iis "seemed, fo an; Ie tybo1ts-}F,'--a-.b1ock tan f'shaped metal traekfmeinber the" trolleywheels erztheiqiloor ."z'oiti'on illustrated i thefhangers a eprovidedfwithf-integi al sthdsKlziridthe trol This isfan' ecoxiomical:co'nstrnctiongbht" my invention is'flli'otlimitedtheretoz ff Thejtrolf' i t i l be e Wek Pt m d place I ment by-the proxixnity 'offtheLjbarriG to the;

' function, except to protect the upper joint of the door, anda's itinvolves the use of I between door and thedoor frame has become enlargedby shrinkage of the wood considerable, distance {below-' the il'pperedg'e of the door injthe manner jsh n, {Thertrola 10;.

the projectionlof itheitra "Qtheside of; the V. v serves-m strengthenthe attachment between i all'respec'tsi'thfe sa'meas thatishown inFig.2, except that infthiscase the. trolley -Wheelsare" provided ,With,integral Studs Me, the hangers "Nfbeing perforatedffor such; studs.

ha g siR f'Itfwill be seensthat the L bar' constituting 3the-jtra'cklfor the trolleys by ;itselfand with 40 ively protects "fromthe Weather the space 'flange rather too short to adequately fulleyj-Wheels .H fareif monnted' theehangers J- whieh. are 'referahly' bol d-at }their lower was; t9 the ooi' byl hebolts The'upper; portions' go thferably off: n' l-fi e v. he -dbv rs-*a t n .-"The 0 6 of't i 'i to mini1 m mbe' j y na. The arrangement also he e rs" ere" toerecess'es' 111. P1 1 e 'sHl-a'reiloosely" moaned on these studs.

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The; construction shown in} Fig. 3 is" in 5 The construction. of Fig. 4follows-that of,

flanges ,O l whi'chj tend to lessen the. friction, t-"of the trolleysthe ontithene'ed of any additional flange, effect which:necessarilyintexwenes between the top of at door 1 and the door frame.It isn'ot possible "for rain to be'driven in over ;the top 5015'the/door. "In the familiar Z 'bar constructions so commonly used at theprese'nt time, thedependingflan'ge serves no more metal, the tendency-isto make this lil its purpose, particularly. when the space or theloosening or settling of the door on its supports. The result is, thatin, many cases the 2 bar constructionofhtrack has terflfrom itsposition, cannotbecome clogged beyond the lowerfpai't's o theh'ahgersg ILil doainofl'lin'iit myself to, the, exact. C011 not ,.pro 'ed steamersprotectflthe car i'roni ,"th'e w eather,in some instances special hoods.

ect little, if ny,

"structions,iarrangenients: and devices shovlvn, v as' modlficationsm1gh t-; be, dev sed which would come Wlthm ;the scope- 'ofmiy. nvert-'t again'StStherain also 1s; efiective to prevent I sparks from; enteringthe car ver the top,

r, the" oor;

9' 1; The; combination. with gal-railway car HIId a-idOQIQQOf HQ blockarranged above said 'gldoor, 1 an inwardly turned L bar attached' -tojsaid blockand extending.- below the 'l'lpper edge of the door,'jhangersattached to, the

outside of -said door, the upper p'alrts of which arefofllset intothe-,- door so as, to be substantially finish with the outer surface ofthe door, and trolley Wheels mounted ;on the ofl-set'parts of saidhangers .to sustain 'the door onjsaid .L bar. t A

e The combination with a: railvtfayr car and:'adoor','of.hangers whicharewsecured-Qon car above said g i 3. The combination with a' npperpartsthereof be ow the upper edge 0 the door, trolley 'Wheels having axlesrigiditherewith mounted in said perforat1ons and a track bar secured to"the car above the door, comprising a vertical memberand'inturnedflange,'saidtrack bar sus-- railway can and a door, ofhangers secured on the out side of stud-door havm perforations 1n thethe outside} of {said door, jthe' upper parts of which .areofi-setinto-saiddoor,-'trolley'- wheels mounted on the upper parts oi saidhangers-abovefthe bend'u r the 'oif-set and below the .npper edge of thedbon fand a track 1 for said trolleywheelssecnred fto the taining thet'rolle wheels and holding them i from lateral disp acement in thehangers.

3 EDWARD A. HILL. ;-Witnesses t P; H. .TRUMAN, H. L. PEoK,

